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Bill Crane/File Photo

Bill Crane/File Photo

Crane: No name? No way

A recent Quinnipiac University poll found only 47% of registered voters in America would even consider voting for a third-party candidate for president. That percentage quickly gets worse when you put a name on that third party or candidate.
Bill Crane/File Photo

Bill Crane/File Photo

Crane: Viva Lost Wages

My first trip to Sin City came in 1995, Christmas week. Newly divorced, I would see my toddler daughter on her third birthday that December 18th, prior to her departure on an annual pilgrimage to Virginia with her mother to visit her grandparents.
Bill Crane/File Photo

Bill Crane/File Photo

Crane: Controlled burns prevent forest fires

Last week took me to Washington, D.C., and an expert panel on public health issues, particularly inequities in healthcare across our system and nation. I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Rachel Levine there, a four-star admiral and U.S. Under Secretary for Health & Human Services.
Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: Some random thoughts on random subjects

Happy Belated Birthday, America! I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, even though I wasn’t born on the 4th of July. As for Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” I would remind everyone that America was great long before Trump showed up – and remains great today.
Bill Crane/File Photo

Bill Crane/File Photo

Crane: Biden his time?

I first met then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware in 1988, after his first of two unsuccessful campaigns to become president of the United States (1988, 2008).
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: New life for hometown newspapers

Lately, I’ve been hanging out with a few newspaper publishers who remain convinced print journalism is not dead. They are not doomsayers. They are intrepid entrepreneurs.